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Desmond Hall

pulp editor; associate editor of Astounding Stories

Pulp editor and associate editor of Astounding Stories. In November 1933 he returned Howard’s “The Valley of the Lost” because it did not fit the magazine’s policy, while explicitly encouraging Howard to submit pseudoscientific short fiction.

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Human
Historicity
Historical / real

Names & variants

Marquis d’Esmond · Title Or Epithet

Works

Poetry

Poetry appearances come from the exhaustive exact-state census of all 765 currently catalogued Poetry textual states.

Correspondence

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Letter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked August 15, 1933MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked September 11, 1933MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, October 3, 1933MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, October 22, 1933MentionedLetter from Desmond Hall to Robert E. Howard, November 16, 1933SenderLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, November 29, 1933MentionedLetter from Clark Ashton Smith to H. P. Lovecraft, postmarked December 4, 1933MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked December 13, 1933MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, circa January 8–11, 1934MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Richard F. Searight, January 15, 1934Mentioned